Features published each month
Contents 2007
December 2007
 The
EPR Arms: Mad World
How much have things changed over the years? Pop bands,
Christmas songs, NPfIT? Join Sean Brennan and the regulars at the EPR Arms
for some reminiscing and a rendition of the EPR Arms' very own hit
"The 12 Days of NPfIT Christmas". enter the pub ....
Intelligent healthcare monitoring
for hospital and home care
The Saphire Project has developed an intelligent healthcare
monitoring and decision-support system based on a 'semantic
interoperability' platform that integrates wireless medical sensor
data with hospital information systems.
read more ...
Combining electronic and paper-based
systems improves Gloucestershire Hospitals facilities management
Paper archives of
utility bills and maintenance records caused problems for storage
and retrieval. Documents were scanned and routed to relevant sites
and folders for electronic storage and management.
read more ...
OT Direct reduces Hampshire's
occupational therapy wait times
Hampshire Adult Services Department used a business process
management solution to develop a collaborative call centre and case
management system that streamlined services and reduced wait times
by 50%. read more ...
Who's losing your personal data?
The loss of CDs by UK Revenue and Customs containing the personal
information of 25 million UK citizens rightly caused a public
outcry. Richard Stone of Credant Technologies says the real question
that the British people should be asking is: “Who else has lost my data that I haven’t been
told about?” read more ...
Information to support shared care
In the second of a series of articles on the technical background
to interoperability, Ann Wrightson from the CSW Group
Technology Office reviews recent work on information sharing in
health and social care and summarises the important factors that
make information sharing work.
read more ...
November 2007
Developing a pan-European health web
A research consortium is seeking to chart a road map for ehealth
interoperability that would eventually hook up the health
information systems of EU member states in a seamless web.
read more ...
Digitising the clinical paper trail: a clinician's tale
Dr Sebastian Zeki recounts his formative experiences of
information management in the NHS that led to his involvement in the
development of an online solution for preparing hospital clinic
letters. The solution reduced the waiting time for letters from several weeks to one
hour. November 2007. read more ...
 The
ASSIST Column
Information at the heart of decision making. A development
priority?
Three strategic health authorities in collaboration with the NHS Institute for
Innovation and Improvement (NHS I), the Information Centre and NHS
Connecting for Health have created a pilot informatics graduate
trainee scheme. read more ...
Mobilising healthcare with wireless technology
Roger Hockaday of Aruba Networks gives an overview of the wide
range of processes in healthcare that could be made more efficient
by using wireless technology.
November 2007. read more ...
Printed electronics will
revolutionise how mobile phones are used
Dr Peter Harrop, Chairman of IDTechEx introduces some of the
exciting applications for printed electronics, the basis of an
emerging $300 billion business embracing transistors, memory,
displays, solar cells, batteries, sensors, lasers and much more.
November 2007.
read more ...
 Post-operative telecare of babies a success for Belfast children's
hospital
A three-year home-care project by the Paediatric Cardiology Department
of the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children, has shown that
videoconferencing can provide major assistance in the post-operative
care and monitoring of babies and small children with major congenital
heart conditions. November 2007. read more ...
The
EPR Arms: Investing in IT
Sean Brennan and the regulars at the EPR Arms invite you join them
for a chat about the important issues in healthcare IT. Readers are
also invited to email Sean with their views and comments on the
topic.
enter the pub ... October 2007
Interoperability of
healthcare information
In the first of a series of articles on the technical background
to interoperability, Ann Wrightson from the CSW Group
Technology Office looks at two key factors that make
interoperability standards work: maturity and harmonization. October
2007. read more ...
A pilot study of patient-generated electronic medical histories
in primary care
Tess Lomax, Mark Cullen and Rupert Jones report on a
trial of an interactive software program, Instant Medical History,
that is designed to help patients prepare their own medical history
of a new condition prior to consultation with a GP. October 2007.
read more ...
Understanding the organisation
through process and information modelling
Donna Burbank of Embarcadero Technologies explains how
understanding the critical interrelationships between data,
process and organisation can be facilitated by the use of
graphical models. read more ...
Delivering expert cardiac
support in the community
Mike Paynter, nurse practitioner in emergency care at
Bridgwater Community Hospital, outlines how cardiac problems
can be assessed in the primary care environment, improving
patient care and helping alleviate some of the operational
and financial burdens on secondary and emergency care
providers. read more ...
It’s good to talk: making
connected personal health possible
David Whitlinger, Intel’s Director of Healthcare
Standards explains why interoperability is the key to
providing millions of people worldwide with the tools they
need to manage their health and the health of their
families. October 2007. read more
...
 The Sheffield interactive health and
well-being atlas
Sheffield Primary Care Trust has used a graphical and mapping tool
to display health and well-being factors for the city's
neighbourhoods and districts in an interactive online atlas. October
2007. read more ...
Electronic records drive changes in Scotland's cleft services
How the introduction of an electronic patient
records (EPR) system at Scotland’s National Managed Clinical Network
for Cleft Lip and Palate has brought multiple benefits for
clinicians, staff and patients.
October 2007. read more ...
The importance of storage management in patient care
David Jones explains why, with the huge amounts of
unstructured data generated in the modern hospital, the
proper management of the data is crucial to making optimum
use of storage resources. October 2007.
read more ...
September 2007
Towards a ‘national wellness service’
The key health issue will soon become how to turn the current health service, or ‘national sickness service’, into a ‘national wellness service’
that focuses on prevention rather than cure, says the new economics foundation’s
David Boyle. read more ...
EPR Arms
The
EPR Arms has re-opened!
Sean Brennan and the regulars at the EPR Arms once
again invite you join them each month for a chat about the important
issues in healthcare IT. Readers are also invited to email Sean with
their views and comments on the on the important issues in
healthcare IT.
enter the pub ...
The ASSIST column
How green is
health informatics?
John Leach makes the case for using
teleconferencing technology to cut CO2
emissions by reducing the need to travel.
read more ...
Better laboratory management for Newcastle hospitals with new
inventory system
Barcoding.co.uk has equipped the Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals
NHS Foundation Trust with an advanced inventory system. Installation
of its StockTraxx NHS system enables the Trust’s specialist
biochemistry laboratory to control costs and operate just-in-time
ordering. September 2007 read
more ...
A new era in information management at Liverpool
Women’s NHS Foundation Trust
The Trust had disparate IT systems with different hardware
platforms, operating systems and business applications, making operations
ineffective and liable to data loss. The solution was to virtualise application
servers, centralise storage and deploy a mirrored storage area network.
September 2007 read more ...
Wireless network improves security and accuracy of records at
Southampton hospital
Southampton's wireless network helps to
speed up diagnosis, improve patient treatment, reduce
the risk of administrative errors in record keeping,
and supports advanced mobile applications.
read more ...
Telemedicine as
support for chronic disease management
With the decline in numbers of doctors and experienced nurses and
the consequent increasing pressure on the acute sector, coupled with
increasing patient expectation, Julia Davey, RGN Community
Respiratory Nurse Specialist at Central Surrey Health, asks how can
the growing problem of chronic disease management be addressed?
September 2007 Read article
...
August 2007
Microfilm: the reel thing?
 With the big IT firms squaring up to each other in the latest
battle in the format wars, and even the chief executive of The
National Archives voicing concern over the longevity of digital
storage formats, Paul Morris asks if it's time. August 2007.
read more ...
Clustered storage enhances prostate cancer and proteomics research
The Louis Warschaw Center for Applied Molecular Medicine, Los
Angeles needed secure, highly scalable and cost-effective storage
for the petabytes of data generated by mass spectrometer analyses.
It found the answer in a a clustered storage solution with
independent capacity and performance scaling. August 2007.
read more ...
Are you covering your back end?
Tips on securing your storage network
Andrew Wilson of Hitachi Data Systems outlines measures an
organisation needs to take to ensure
physical and electronic security of data storage systems. August
2007.
read more ...
Integrated IT service management for
Leicestershire health community
LHIS needed to integrate IT service-management to deliver smarter
ways of working across the local health community in Leicestershire
and Rutland. An IT Business Management suite wasdeployed to assist
with the implementation of ITIL best-practice framework for
incident, problem and change management.
 Preventing
failure of network connectors for mobile medical equipment
Medical equipment is subject to frequent connecting and
disconnecting from networks, for which standard connectors are not
designed and may cause them to fail within months of use. Alex
Birkett of University College London Hospitals presents some
possible solutions. read more ...
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